GRANDMOTHER


Meaning of GRANDMOTHER in English

ˈgran(d)ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷, -raan- noun

Etymology: Middle English graundmoder (translation of Middle French grant mere ), from Middle French grant grand + Middle English moder mother — more at grand , mother

1.

a. : the mother of one's father or mother ; also : foremother

b. : an old or elderly and venerable woman

2. : a woman or something thought of as female that is the earliest or oldest in a line of similar and usually successively developing things

the grandmother of writers of modern verse

the grandmother of all suffragettes

London … is the grandmother of capitals — T.H.Fielding

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.